A24 4,333 Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Just now, Jay said: Yea something must not be right with Alex's setup or his country has different situation going on with stuff, because on my setup in the USA, the picture quality of Prime is better than Netflix, especially the 4K HDR content If it's my TV then why is there no problem with The Boys? Carnival Row was too dark. The Man In The High Castle a bit dim. The Romanoffs completely out of sync. Vikings completely out of sync. Many complain about Amazon Prime's lip-sync problems on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 Interesting, haven't heard of anyone here having issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 The Good Place 4x04 Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy Well the person arriving didn't mix things up as much as I'd hoped, everything still feels like they are just killing time until they can get into whatever their endgame is. At least there was more funny moments than usual this week, like the crazy pony that ate the butterfly and Jason being Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Jason was always the worst character though, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 Hmm, I dunno, depends on what criteria you are using I suppose. He's probably the funniest of the main 4, imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Ah right, I don't find his character funny. Actually, I think it was the concept and scenarios that I found funny, moreso than the characters themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 Janet's the best character by far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 She's certainly been the most amusing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 22, 2019 Author Share Posted October 22, 2019 Mr. Robot 4x03 403 Forbidden That was fantastic, everything's really coming together now. Whiterose's backstory is I suppose a bit cliched but still executed well. Wellick at the end was super stupid but I suppose him saying that sets up fascinating stakes for next week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 On 10/21/2019 at 7:06 PM, Alexcremers said: If it's my TV then why is there no problem with The Boys? Carnival Row was too dark. The Man In The High Castle a bit dim. The Romanoffs completely out of sync. Vikings completely out of sync. Many complain about Amazon Prime's lip-sync problems on the internet. As I've said, it was also lacking in quality when I tried it, on multiple devices. Very strong compression and banding, and while I didn't have lip sync issues, the subtitles of several shows were off by seconds. Plus their library sucks - some older titles are only available in DVD resolution, some actually look like VHS transfers, and the availability or non-availability of original language versions is very inconsistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 22 hours ago, Jay said: Janet's the best character by far Agreed. Loved the episode where they were all stuck in her dimensional void. D’Arcy Carden nailed all of the character personalities and inflections quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 22, 2019 Author Share Posted October 22, 2019 Yup the far and away clear highlight of season 3. That episode, particularly her performance in it, was incredible. Too bad that's the only really exciting thing they've done since the first season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,448 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 The Good Place - Seasons 2 and 3 It was good! Neither of the following seasons had the brilliance of the first (one of the best comedy things on TV this decade), but they still had their moments. The main problem with S2 is that the first half of the season had a lot of fillers, and the plot developed very slowly. Then, on the second half, it becomes accelerated, things happen very fast. It does not have a rhythm as good of the first, that knew how to balance plot with more trivial stuff. That said, it had some of my favorite episodes on the entire series, like the second episode (third on its original airing - Netflix bundled the two part season premiere on a single episode) on which Spoiler Michael keeps trying to make his experiment work, and hilariously failing over 800 times, and the Trolley Problem episode, they were hysterically funny for me. Spoiler The episode that takes part on the Bad Place museum, and Maya Rudolph's Judge were all great too. S3 started mostly boring, with few good jokes and kind of a lame plot (not even Trevor, one of my favorite things on S1, could save it). But it got a little better on the second half. The script remained sharp and funny as always, but the main problem is Spoiler as most of this season takes place on the Earth, the script loses much of the surreal, absurd humour of the first two seasons. However, I liked the final episodes on the season, from that one with Chuck from BCS onwards. The best one of course was Spoiler the one on which the four humans are trapped on Janet's void, and they all become Janets. D'Arcy Corden was already great on the part, and she was woefully overlooked on Emmy for this episode, she performs all the parts (the Janet we know, Neutral Janet, Tahani-Janet, Jason-Janet, Eleanor-Janet and Chidi-Janet) wonderfully. Also, I watched the S4 premiere too, and it wasn't that bad, just an OK episode. But they do have a lot to wrap for a final season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 Here's hoping they have a good endgame up their sleeve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 On 10/22/2019 at 7:26 PM, Marian Schedenig said: As I've said, it was also lacking in quality when I tried it, on multiple devices. Very strong compression and banding, and while I didn't have lip sync issues, the subtitles of several shows were off by seconds. Plus their library sucks - some older titles are only available in DVD resolution, some actually look like VHS transfers, and the availability or non-availability of original language versions is very inconsistent. Haven't checked their movies yet. However, Netflix movies that are regular HD and not 4K don't always look good either (still better than VHS though). We're currently watching the second season of The Man In The High Castle and while the resolution is very good, the image lacks luminosity, as if they only used the available natural light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 25 minutes ago, Jay said: Here's hoping they have a good endgame up their sleeve They said they have the cameo to end all cameos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,448 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Also, how many episodes is S4 going to have? Wikipedia (which is not exactly reliable) says it'll be 14, one more than the previous seasons. But I've seen people saying that it'll be 8 or 9 episodes, and on Crapflix there's only 9 episodes listed. I really hope they don't go for the "shorter final season" route. GOT did it, with woeful results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 If you click on the source of Wikipedia saying 14 (the [5] right next to it) you'll see that is indeed 14 https://tvline.com/2019/06/12/the-good-place-ending-final-season-4-spoilers-nbc/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,448 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 I did. But this interview was published in June, and then I read a review of the season, published yesterday, that implied that this was going to be a shorter season, so I thought they had changed that since this June. But I guess the reviewer was referring to the mid-season finale, this pause for holidays that all seasons had, before resuming it this January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 I'm sure that reviewer just made a mistake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 PENNY DREADFUL S1, E1. Ok, so I'm a little late to the party, but... For those who know this show, I won't bore you with the details. For those of you who are not familiar, I will not bore myself boring you with the details, except to day that this is set in Victorian London, and it features a mix of fictional, and literary characters, among sundry other vampires, ghouls, and other creatures of the night. Timothy Dalton is on a quest to find his lost daughter (or something), enlisting the help of Victor Frankenstein, some American pretty-boy, and a possibly-dead Eva Green. And that's it, really. It lives up to its name - a tacky, gaudy piece of not-so-grand guignol, that, nevertheless, managed to sustain my interest, for 45 minutes, despite Ms. Green demonstrating, once again, that she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag, that had a tear at one end, and a 10-ft. neon sign pointing to it, saying <---- THIS WAY OUT! It did nothing for me, neither did it do anything to me. I might watch E2, if I feel like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Timothy Dalton is great in that show. This guy too, BTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 47 minutes ago, Alexcremers said: Timothy Dalton is great in that show. Timothy Dalton is great, in just about anything, Alex. He's a very good actor, who's never got his dues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 I loved him in Hot Fuzz, with his Maryland Cookies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 He's a slasher! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,448 Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 On 10/26/2019 at 5:14 PM, Naïve Old Fart said: PENNY DREADFUL S1, E1. S1 and the first half of S2 is more of a horror mystery show. Then, it becomes more of a gothic melodrama, with a lot of people crying, using drugs, depressed, tragedy after tragedy, etc. It disappointed me a little, specially Eva Green's arc along the series. Spoiler She starts the show as this ambiguous and mysterious witch with a lot of knowledge about the supernatural world, and by the beginning of S3 she is stuck on a depression because she couldn't be with that guy from Pearl Harbor. Abel Korzeniowski's score for the show, however, is excellent. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 28, 2019 Author Share Posted October 28, 2019 The Good Place 4x05 Employee of the Bearimy Well, I feel like things are finally picking up a bit now. It's nice to have the real Janet back and Ted Danson was on fire this week playing both normal Michael and Vicky Michael. The Tahani/Chidi story in the main neighborhood was way less interesting It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 14x05 The Gang Texts Well that was one of the funniest episodes they've done in a while, not so much for the jokes and the intricately detailed plot. Pretty clever Saturday Night Live 45x04 Chance the Rapper / Chance the Rapper This dude is pretty good, some funny skits this week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,528 Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 On 10/27/2019 at 8:34 AM, Quintus said: You wanna be a big man, in a small town? Fuck off, up the model village! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,359 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 On 10/26/2019 at 9:14 PM, Naïve Old Fart said: PENNY DREADFUL S1, E1. Ok, so I'm a little late to the party, but... For those who know this show, I won't bore you with the details. For those of you who are not familiar, I will not bore myself boring you with the details, except to day that this is set in Victorian London, and it features a mix of fictional, and literary characters, among sundry other vampires, ghouls, and other creatures of the night. Timothy Dalton is on a quest to find his lost daughter (or something), enlisting the help of Victor Frankenstein, some American pretty-boy, and a possibly-dead Eva Green. And that's it, really. It lives up to its name - a tacky, gaudy piece of not-so-grand guignol, that, nevertheless, managed to sustain my interest, for 45 minutes, despite Ms. Green demonstrating, once again, that she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag, that had a tear at one end, and a 10-ft. neon sign pointing to it, saying <---- THIS WAY OUT! It did nothing for me, neither did it do anything to me. I might watch E2, if I feel like it. Apparently Billie Piper's Belfast accent in this is something to behold, and not in a good way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 It can't be any worse than Karl Urban's "cockney" accent, bless him, in The Boys. Dick Van Dyke will be proud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 2 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: Apparently Bille Piper's Belfast accent in this is something to behold, and not in a good way. I think she was fine as a prozzie dying of consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 Mr Robot 4x04 404 Not Found I want Dom to have a happy ending but I don't see a path for her to get one. Darlene's story this week with Jamm from P&R was really good and thought provoking. The main Elliot/Tyrell story was.... I feel like I have to hold judgement until I see if the next episode sheds a different light on it, but for now I'd say it's pretty disappointing. Dialogue-free episode next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,359 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 3 hours ago, Stefancos said: I think she was fine as a prozzie dying of consumption. Apparently she also says she's 'Bridget from the Shankill'. Shankill was and is a very Protestant/Loyalist part of the city, it doesn't tend to be home to too many 'Bridgets'. But that's what happens when writers do only partial research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 Silicon Valley 6x01 Artificial Lack of Intelligence Not good, the show is wayyyyyy past its prime. And somehow, every actor looked WAY older than ever before. What happened? The best part was the Gilfoyle / Dinesh AI. Everything else was meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 I'm already weeping for the times when Desplat was scoring this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted November 4, 2019 Author Share Posted November 4, 2019 The Good Place 4x06 A Chip Driver Mystery Well I thought that was pretty good overall. I think we're finally seeing some foreward momentum with the story. And D'arcy Carden absolutely killed it as Bad Janet. Might be my second favorite character after regular Janet Modern Family 11x05 The Last Halloween Zzzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted November 4, 2019 Author Share Posted November 4, 2019 Mr Robot 4x05 405 Method Not Allowed Wow. That was one of the best episodes of the show, even cooler than the single-take episode from last season. Equal parts intense, funny, exciting, sad. This show is firing on all cylinders in its final season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 14x06 The Janitor Always Mops Twice That was legit great. Much better than the Birdman episode from a few years ago. Really nicely done, clever writing, funny moments. Loved the black and white with red cinematography, too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Finished the second and final season of Fleabag. What an absolute darling of a programme, one my favourites from the Beeb in years. You'd be hard pressed to find a better, more charming lead than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and her writing skill and wit here was only ever going to compliment her deeply sympathetic and affable performance. She invites you into her character's story and makes you feel welcome, as if you're towing along with her, for the duration. It was a pleasure, and I'm sad it has ended already. Big things surely await this major new talent. Left floundering with nowt to watch after that, we noticed Steve Carrell's loveable mug appear once again in the Prime streaming carousel. I'd always resisted (read: rejected) the US take on The Office, but I was also well aware that it had a following, and a bit of a huge one at that. I keep seeing 'Dunder Muffin' references on my other online haunts, and I admit my curiosity had began to pique a bit. So we hit play - on the second season. Holy shit this is hilarious. Could it even be... better? publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 The Office US is great, especially seasons 2-7. The first season they didn't really know what they were doing and leaned too hard into making Carrell be a knock-off David Brent, but by season 2 they had figured out their own path and starting bringing all the other Dunder Mifflin employees more into the forefront. Toward's the end of Carrell's run and after he left there is just a swinging door of new main and side characters, many of them great character actors in their own right, but it neve really reaches the season 2-7 heights, until the finale episode which was really good again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I've heard there's a serious drop off before the end. So is that two seasons (8-9) that can be skipped wholesale then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 Nah I'd watch em. Plenty of good stuff in there Somewhere towards the end the guy who plays Jared on Silcon Valley shows up and he's great as always, James Spader is in there for a while, Kathy Bates for a while, Kimmy Schmidt, Clark Duke, plenty of good actors swing through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I was reading on Reddit, some dude was saying that S9 was very hard work and that basically the show was just bereft of laughs by that point. That sounds like something I've experienced before with shows, but I'll see. We can't bring ourselves to watch beyond the first episode of the final The Good Place for similar reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 Saturday Night Live 45x05 Kristen Stewart / Coldplay Kristen Stewart is surprisingly good at this, she killed it. Silicon Valley 6x02 Blood Money The opening bit with the ads inside the game was pretty funny. The HR lady's duel with Gilfoyle was pretty good too. The main plot of Jared quitting and finding another programmer to back was odd and felt contrived just to set up some future plot. Not sure what to make of this new Chilean guy. Modern Family 11x06 A Game of Chicken WTF was that shit. Gloria is suddenly super religious out of nowhere 11 seasons in? Luke is suddenly a smart app inventor? Cam would seriously pursue out of state jobs without ever consulting with Mitch? Lame from top to bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 14x07 The Gang Solves Global Warming That was pretty funny all around, good episode for Dee and Charlie The Good Place 4x07 Help Is Other People I am thankful this plot that took up half this season is seemingly finally over, it was never as strong as any of the other major plotlines they've done. And it was great to actually have KHB have actual screen time and things to do this week as well, she was feeling like a glorified extra before now this season. I have no idea where they are going after this cliffhanger ending and that is a good thing. Here's hoping they can end the final season strong because it's not off to a good start. Silicon Valley 6x03 Hooli Smokes! Well that was a rollercoaster. A typical episode though, really, that condensed what would be a season of plot in another show into one episode here. I guess with Richard owning Hooli now, the final 4 episodes ever will be interesting... maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,364 Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 Mr. Robot 4x06 406 Not Acceptable They do seem to have organically gotten here, but having all 4 plots this week revolve around a female character being kidnapped, tied up, drugged, and/or held at gunpoint seemed to be a bit too much after a while. But the tension was pretty palpable throughout as every time one storyline cut to another you kept wondering what was going on in the other ones as the minutes ticked by. Darlene and Dom's was the most interesting for certain, and the appearance of Janice at the end was juicy. Elliot and Olivia was the most sad. Everything good in his life he always has to destroy. Vera and Krista was the worst. Seemed like what was stretched out over the whole episode could have been done in 5 minutes. I am glad Whiterose finally decided to show Elliot what her device does, but now that Vera has him who knows how many episodes it will be until that happens, if it ever does. How has Angela's apartment not been foreclosed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 The War of the Worlds '19 Well, nice to see the setting being novel-accurate, but holy shit, this was the most boring piece of dog poo poo I've ever watched. I was painfully checking the minutes every minute to see when this stupid thing would end. It was so goddamned long and slow! Absolute poop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 I saw the first episode on Sky and i swear i can't remember one damn thing about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Series we've watched recently that I probably won't talk about include: Russian Doll OITNB Final Season Lost in Space (Netflix) Farscape + The Peacekeeper Wars Disenchanted Star Trek TOS Star Trek TAS (we stopped after a few episodes and will not continue) The Connors South Park Good Omens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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